Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Bletchingley Garden

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Bletchingley Garden - 20th January 2019

After a long pause without ringing due to personal circumstances, we arranged to go with WA & LON to our friends' garden in Bletchingley. The garden has feeders everywhere. Since our last visit a couple of years ago, Ralph has diversified into desres provision in addition to fine dining for birds. The majority of captures were bound to be tits, but in terms of allowing our two to experience high volume extracting and ringing in the winter, there is nowhere locally that can equal the opportunity that this garden allows.

The morning gave us over 100 new birds and some good recaptures.

Robins bear testament to the food provided in the garden.
K052372 ringed at age 5, 15/03/2015 currently weighing 23.8g.
K052398 ringed at age 5, 08/01/2017currently weighing 24.4g.

Blue Tits
Y823587 ringed age 3, 30/11/2013 and processed again as a 6 08/01/2017.
Z548444 ringed age 5 on 08/01/2018.

Great Tit Z548489 ringed as 5F on 08/01/2017.
Dunnock VB90906 ringed as a 5 on 08/01/2017.

Collared Dove - a first for LON

Goldfinch

Male Chaffinch

Totals: 110 (6)

Collared Dove - 1

Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3

Dunnock - 2 (1)

Robin - 6 (2)

Blackbird - 1

Long-tailed Tit - 9

Blue Tit - 44 (2)

Great Tit - 35 (1)

Nuthatch - 1

Chaffinch - 1

Goldfinch - 5

About us

Chris and Denise Lamsdell

We have both been birders for about 40 years based in South Bucks near the West London reservoir complexes.

Since September 2021 we have been based in North Norfolk. We have done our bit of twitching in the past, but with other priorities this has become a much reduced activity with a preference for seeing new birds where ever our travels take us.

We both have been ringing since 2005. Our local group was the Runnymede RG while based in Buckinghamshire. Since moving to Norfolk we have started a new group called The Iceni Bird Monitoring Group, aimed at increasing public engagement through colour ringing projects on Black-headed Gull, Turnstone and Lapwing. We ring at several sites including Sculthorpe Moor, Sandringham Estate, Deepdale Farm and also monitor bird populations for the Norfolk Rivers Trust. We do ringing at home and support with foreign projects when opportunities allow. Chris also has an interest in Butterflies and Dragonflies and contains his limited photographic skill to them.